Robert
Wright, a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, is the author of
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny and The Moral Animal: Evolutionary
Psychology and Everyday Life, both published by Vintage Books.
The Moral Animal was named by the New York Times Book Review as one of the 12 best
books of 1994 and has been published in 12 languages. Nonzero was
named a New York Times Book Review Notable Book for 2000 and has been
published in nine languages. Wright's first book, Three Scientists and
Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information, was
published in 1988 and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle
Award. Wright is a contributing editor at The New Republic,
Time, and Slate. He has also written for the Atlantic Monthly, the New
Yorker, and the New York Times Magazine. He previously worked at The Sciences magazine, where
his column "The Information Age" won the National Magazine
Award for Essay and Criticism.